Could Methanol-powered Trucks Help Solve The Climate Crisis?

Could Methanol-powered Trucks Help Solve The Climate Crisis? - Farizon G2M

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A close look at how methanol-powered trucks could help solve the climate crisis.
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The world is moving quickly to electrify as much as possible but it's not going to happen overnight and alternative solutions are needed. Geely and their Farizon brand think green methanol could be a solution, so we went behind the scenes of their green methanol plant in Anyang to find out more about the technology, then headed down to Farizon's tech centre to take a closer look at the truck that runs on the fuel.
The green methanol produced in the factory is also helping to power the cauldron at the Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, while Farizon vehicles are supporting the event.
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@CrazyBader

What a great video. To be completely honest, if it were any country other than China, I'd have no hopes for this product. But considering how heavily Geely is diving into this, I'd love to see this grow even larger.

@chris27gea58

It isn't a terrible idea but describing this as green is absurd. Any CO2 captured as a gaseous emission from an industry powered by grey forms of power or grey fuels is by definition grey, viz. the net zeroiness of downstream fuel synthesis and combustion doesn't change a) the greyness of upstream fuel combustion that gave rise to the emissions in the first place or b) the probable greyness of the hydrogen used in methanol synthesis.

@reginald7214

That was wonderful and very informative.

@dalsenov

I think the range extender for electric battery has not to do so much with range but with the cold start during winter. I know that Emgrand Hybrid has a similar dual version in order to solve the cold start during winter.

@grahamjohnson4702

You failed to point out that the methanol truck used 2.4 times as much fuel so to get the same range you need to carry more fuel or have more refuelling. Not a problem with the truck as you can carry additional tanks behind the cab in front of the trailer like gas powered trucks but not so easy in cars.

@ellis777777

Thanks and amazed by there is a already complete chain of eco fuel system from fuel generation to heavy duty vehicle.

@madev_channel

Glad that there are people exploring new possibilities. Nice one

@user-nl4sp7zl9k

oh my, what a swell car review, it is really one of its kind!!!

@dalsenov

Very interesting video! Thank you!

@RichardBuckMovies

Very interesting - great video! I’m not sold on the ‘Green’ nature of this though. Taking hydrogen from coke production is hardly green, and there's no capture of CO2 from the air so it isn't circular either. Electrolysis also requires energy - there is clearly the opportunity for this to be generated by renewables but right now it’s much more efficient to put that energy into a battery.